Kuru Kuru students forced to walk 2 miles to get to school

…due to impassable roads

Children attending the Kuru Kuru Primary and Secondary schools on the Linden Highway are now forced to walk at least two miles to get to and from school, due to the impassable condition of the roadways, which almost resulted in buses toppling on more than one occasion.
This was on Thursday related to Guyana Times by an inconvenienced teacher who termed the situation as “dangerous and unfair” to the children. On Monday, teachers and parents took to the streets to protest the condition of the roads which have been in a deplorable state for the past few years.
The teacher said, “The buses used to go directly into the compound but due to the condition of the road they have to walk in”. According to him, the children have been footing their way in and out of the two mile road to get to and from school since Wednesday.
“They are left to walk about two miles in because the entire journey is approximately two and a half miles. The entire journey (from where the bus turns off the Linden Highway) is about two miles”. The teacher informed that the buses now transport the children up to where it is safe for the vehicle to traverse, which is about half mile and would offload the children who then continue their journey on foot.
It was related that the half mile point is the cutoff point where some amount of rehabilitation works are being done by Government.
The teacher added that he would have observed some works being done to rehabilitate the roads, which only commenced recently. “I think work is in progress on the most deteriorated parts which is on the hill that was explained the bus nearly toppled (on). They are doing the remedial works there but I’m not sure where else they will go from there”.
Guyana Times understands that the contractors have been filling the holes, referred to as craters, with another type of soil in an effort to make it passable.
The man further informed that he believes the decision to upgrade the road was made after a Government official visited the area and informed the residents that they were unable to facilitate the upgrade at present due to unavailable funds. The unpleased residents, he said, vented their frustration by further destroying the roads.
A number of disgruntled placard-bearing residents on Monday morning took to the streets as they protested the condition of the road. They vowed to continue industrial action until the authorities looked into the situation with favourable outcomes.